Strip-attaching means



Oct. 18

M. H. BALLARD STRIP ATTACHING MEANS Filed May 6, 1921A 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 M. H. BALLARD STRIP ATTACHING MEANS oct. 18, 1927. 1,645,641

Filed May 6, 1921 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 /M/f/v TUR A M. H.YBALLARD STRIP ATTAQHING MEANS Filed May 6, 1921 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 y /NVE/v TDH oct. 18,1927. A 1,645,641

M` H. BALLARD STRIP ATTACHING MEANS Filed May 6, 1921 5 sheets-sheet 4 WVM/TOR l M@ M? oct. 1s, 1921.' v1,645,641

' M. H. BALLARD STRIP ATTACHING-MEANS Filled Marv 6 1921 5 Sheets=Sheet 5 Patented Oct. 18, 1927.

Unirse STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

IVIILTN I-E. BALLARD, OF'LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T-O UNITED SHOE MA- CHNERY CORPORATON,.OE PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ACORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

STRIP-ATTACHING MEANS.

Application filed May 6,

This invention relates to machines for attaching Welts or similar strips of stock to articles such as shoes, and is illustrated as embodied in an especially designed machine for adliesively securing mock Welts to soles for li/iclay shoes. An object of the inven- "tion is to improve such a stripsattaching machine, as hereinafter explained, although' in various aspects the invention is not limited to embodiment in machines of the illustrated type.

At those parts of the shoe Where the contour presents a sharp curve, as about the toe for example, the distortion of the lat erally-bent Welt presents a portion which is undesirably bunched lor thickened and which iii some cases .is twisted out of the flat position which the Welt must assume in 'the finished slice. lt has been proposed to obviate this dii'riiculty by the useof Welts which are specially prepared to render them laterally flexible, or by slashing the twisted and `bunched portions as the Welt is flattened in a Welt-beating machine, or by slashing or pinlring the ivelts in the Welt-stitching or weltdaying machines (for Goodyear., welt and McKay shoes, respectively). y

lt is preferred, in handling McKay shoes and some styles of Goodyear shoes, to have the Welt prepared for bending, by pinlringor otherwise, in the Welt-attaching niachine, but iviien this is done it is found difficult to arrange the machine in a manner which Will obviate great multiplication of parts in the immediate vicinity of the point of attaching the Welt. Recently it has been proposed to meet this difficulty by preparing the Welt for bending- While it is being fed to the attaching means, at a point so remote that the Welt preparing mechanism and the Welt-attaching means are entirely separate, and do not join with one another to give this multiplicityT of parts ust at the point Where the operator Wishes to be as free as possible to Watch the actual attachment of the Welt.

ifllliile this solution is usually satisfactory, it is found that in case the Welt is prepared for bending in a Way which necessitates accurate registration with the sharply-curved.

portion of the shoe, difficulty is experienced lin operating the preparing means `at exactly 1921. Serial No. 467,328.

for Womens McKay shoes With pointed toes,

itl is desirable to prepare the Welt for bending about the toe by pinlring, or removing a V-shaped section of the Welt. the pinked section of such a Welt must register exactly with the toe of the sole, and such accurate registration is vdiilicult to secure when the time for performing the pinling operation is left entirely to the operators judgment.

An important feature of this invention, accordingly, is to be found in the provision,

Nm an apparatus for operating upon a portion of a Welt or similar strip of stock and attaching the strip to an article, of means to gage the location of the portion'of the stripv operated upon lengthwise With respect to the article to register said portion of the strip With a predetermined point on the ai'- ticle. As illustrated, a visual signal or gage is provided, under the control of the operator, Which indicates to him When lie should operate the Welt-preparing means, which vis illustrated as a pinking device.` The relative positions of the signal and the pinling device may be varied, to provide accurate adjustment, and the treadle Which controls the signal is arranged with a lost-motion connection through Which complete depression operates the pinking device.

Other features ofthe invention are to be found in a novel Work support for use on pointed McKay soles such as described above, in an improved mounting of such a support to maintain at all times accurate parallelism between the Work-engaging parts of the support and the Welt-attaching roll, and in vvarious combinations and specific constructions which Will be obvious from the following description of the embodiment of my "invention illustrated in the accompanying dra-Wings, in which w 7' Fig. chine; f

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the upper part of the machine, partlyfbrolren away g Fig. 3 is atop plan View,

l is a front elevation of the `inabviously Y a gear 411-, which is arranged to Fig. il is a perspective showing part of the operating mechanism g Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view sl'xowing the V:"elaticui of the signal, the pinling device, and the welt-attaching means;

Fig. 6 shows a McKay outsole which a meel; Welt has beenV adhesively secured by the machine;

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a modification embodying my novel pinhing device;

l? S and lvl are detail vie-irs of the pini;- ing` device; and

Fig. l is a perspective of a Welt from which a section has been removed by the pinliing device. l Y

rlhe illustrative ei'ubodiincut of my invention shown in the fflrawings ci'in'nku'ises genorally a wheci 2O 4arranged to feed'an adhesive-coated welt VI past a pinking device 100 to a presser roll Q2 Where it is secured to a prepared, channeled, McKay solo Si by `the yielding pressure of a Work support or feed roll 40, driven at a speed which is under the control of the operator. The pinhng device l0() is manually actuated to re move a V-shaped section the Welt, as shoivn at X, Fie. 5, at a time when the toe of the sole registers 'with a signal or gage 80. The relative position of the rolls 2Q, it), the pinlring device 100, and the sig-nal 80 is such that Vactuation of the oinliing device at this time results in registering the prepared portion X of Welt Vil with theV toe of the sole S (see Figs. and 6).

To describe the machine more in detail, it comprises a base 24, illustrated adapted vto be secured to bench, and the top of which is arranged in the usual Way as a clampy adjustably to secure a plunger 26 carrying the machine proper. Power is derived from `a suitable belt passing over pulley 28 throigh a handpower clutch of the usual construction, arranged for more or less slippage so that shaft 30 is driven by the pulley the same speed handle 32 is rotated by the operator, VShaft 30 in turn drives gears 534i and 36, the latter meshing with gear 38, which drives presser Wheel 22.

' Gear 36 also drives sh vft l2, carrying ive the work andbtl. As

i. support fl() through gears f 6, el

best shown in Fig. 4l, gcarzf; i -i'l-tl anil 50, and the Werl: supportl0, are all mounted on a carrier 52 arranged for oscillation about a pivotal mounting 54, the maximum oscillation being too small to carry gears and ilout of mesh. The carrier 52 is pulled down by ay suitable treadle, not shown. pulling on treadle rod 56, to facilitate the insertion and Withdrawal of Work between rolls 22 and 40, and is pressed upwardly toward presser roll Qby spring 56 as far as permitted by an adjustable stop 58. The tension of springr 56 may be adjusted at 60..

An edge guide for the sole is provided in the form of a rol 62 mounted on carrier 52 to remain constantly in co-operatire rela tion Yto Work-supporting roll (Fig. l).

By this novel mounting for Work support 4C() and its drive mechanism, it is maintained with its Work-engaging surface parallel to the work-engaging surface of presser roll 22, regardless of its distance therefrom, and a constant and uniform pressure is at all times attained throughout the width of the Welt.

The Work supporting roll 4r() has a surface 64 to engage the upturned channel lip on the bottom of a McKay sole. ln previous Weltlaying machines the worlesupport has been .mounted in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the sole, and the edge Corresponding to surface 64 was therefore fiat. Such a surface Wes found to bridge across some of the sharper of the rei-entrant angles formed at the Shanks of McKay soles, particularly for certain styles of Womens shoes, by the upturned channel. lips, throwing both Work-support and edge gage out of alinement with th-e Welt. The Welt, which re mained in engagement With the edge gage,

would accordingly be secured to such a sol-e with a portion projecting beyond its edge nlat the shank.

To obviate this difficulty, I incline the plane of the ivorlesupport as shown, and form surface 64; as a frustrum of a con-e, so that its Work-engaging portion will be perpendicular. By this arrangement, ivill be apparent from inspection of Fig l and the size of the Work-engaging roll l() is so reduced that it Will e1 Jer With lout diiliculty the most extreme angle at the shank.

The side of Work-support 4l() opposite the lip-engaging surface 64 is out away at 66 to provide clearance for the edge guide (Fig. 5).

rlhe signal comprises a sole-registering member 62 movable longitudinally of the solo in a plunger 84, and clamped in adjusted position by a clamping bolt 86. rlhis longitudinal movement provides for adj'ustment for various styles of shoes. This is necessary be "ause the distance 86M@ meisured about the couleur of the solo must lequal the distance lll-100 measured along lli lill! and out of c o-operative relation to the sole being welted.

The pinking device100 comprises ahead 102 to which any one of a series of interchangeable cutters 104 may be secured by screws 106. The cutter acts against a cutting` block 108, and a stripper device 112 is yieldingly held in place by a spring 110. Head 102 1s reciprocated to actuate the cutter by a pullrod 114, act-uated by a bell crank 116. Bell crank 116 is operated by pulling down on treadle rod 118 by means of a suitable treadle, not shown.

Lever 94 is also actuated by treadle rod 118, being pushed upwardly by astop 120 thereon, to pull signal 80 up to idle posin tion, and pushed downwardly by stop 122 actingvthrough spring: 124. After lever 94 engages the upper stop 96 when signal 80 isin active position, further downwardpull on. rod 118 merely compresses spring 124 without further operating lever 94, andropcrates the pinking device 100. Rod 114 is given sufficient lost motion to allow operation of signal 80 separately from the pinking device in this way.

In Figs. 7-10 there is shown a modificat-ion of the abovefdescribed machine einbodying an illustrative form of my novel pinking device. This device comprisesV a straight knife 204y carried by a headv 202 to permit ready exchange for a sharp knife, and a leaf spring 206 on each side of the knife to prevent the welt from sticking to it when cut. This knife is intended to sever a portion V from the welt by two successive cuts in different angular positions. Head 2 02 carryingt-he knife is turned to these positions by a gear 208 meshing with a segmental rack 210 carried by an arm 212 rocked by link 214. Link 214 is operated by a crank pin 216, mounted for radial adjustment in an undercut groove in a crank disk 218, secured to a spindle 220, and carrying a pawl 222. Spindle 220 is mounted to turn in a friction bearing 224 carried by a projection 226 of head 26,` against .the further resistance of friction washers 228. The friction of the bearing 224 and washers 228 holds crank disk 218 `wher-ever it is turned.

Loosely mounted onk spindle 220 is a gear 230 carrying a ratchet 232 co-operating with pawl 222, and meshing with a rack 234 on an arm 236 of the signal-operating arm 90.

By this` arrangement, each time arm 90 is rocked, gear 230 turns ratchet 232 180i.v forward and then back. On the forward turn, one tooth of ratchet 232 engagespawl 222 and turns` crank disk 218 through 180. On the return turn of ratchet-232, p awl 222 'i svidle, and the,-.friction of bearing 224 and washers 228 holds crank disk 218 stationary. Thus the diskturnsconstantlyin a clockwise. di: rect @ein Fg- '8., 180"l each time arm 9Q's rocked, and each 180O turn rocks knife 204 from one side of thecut X to the other. As shown in Fig. 10, the two successive cuts to provide a clean cut about the outline of f the section tion. f

By adjusting pin 216 radially of cam disk 218, the throw of knife 204 may be varied, to change the width of the Ysection V removed thereby. y Y In operating the modification of my invention shown in Figs. 1-6, the end W1 of theiwelt is butted by the operator with a sharp knife, treadle rod 56 is pulled down to separate rolls 22 and 40,'and a soleS is inserted against the adhesive-coated side of the welt. The operator, holding the sole in his left hand and: handle 32 in his right, feeds the work along in the usual manner. Shortly after starting, he operates the other V toinsure its complete separa- ,treadle to pull down on rod 118 just far enough to move signal 80 to active position. Vhen the signaly registers with the toe of the sole, as shown in Fig. 5, he stops feeding the sole long enough to pull treadle rod 118 the rest of the way down, pinking the welt at X, and then releases it to carry signal 80 and pii'iking device 100 back to their idle positions. On continuing the feedingy of the sole S, the prepared portion X of the welt /V registers exactly at the toe (Fig. 6). The operator lays the other side of the welt, and at the end of the operation he reverses handle 32 for an instant to feed the sole backward far enough to permit him to butt the end W2 of the welt, whereupon he pulls down again on treadle rod 56 andremoves t-he finished sole.

The operation of the second modification is the same, except for the pinking operation. The signal 80 having come into registration with the toe of the sole, as described, the operator fir-st pulls rod 118 the rest of the way down,.making one side of cut X, then releases it and immediatelypulls it all the way down again.l The iirst part of the second stroke turns knife y204 to the other side of cut X and the second part of the stroke makes the cut. Link 214is mounted with sufficient play to allow for the reciprocation of the pinking device 200 as a whole in making the successive cuts. The signal 8,0 makes one useless motion from active to idle position and back'at the time the second cutis made, but this is not of sufficient consequence to warrant separate treadle connections for the signal and the pinking device. f

Vhile I have described in detailone einbodiment of my invention adapted for use in making McKay shoes, it is not the inten-. .tionto limit its scope thereby, or otherwise than by the terms of the appended claims,

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I-Iaving described my inventioin'what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

l. In an apparatus'for attaching a strip of stock to an article, in combination, means to attach a strip to an article, means to operateu on the strip prior to attachment, and means to gageA the location of the portion of the strip operated on lengthwise with respect to the edge of the article to register said portion with a ]nedetermined pointv on the article. Q. In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stockto an article, in combination, means to attach astrip to anlarticle, means to prepare a portion of the strip for bending prior to attachment, and means to gage the location of the prepared portion of the' strip lengthwise with respect tothe edge of the articleto register said portion with a sharply-curved portion of said edge.

In combination, means to attach a strip of stock to an article, a knife to cut the strip before attachment to facilitate bending it, and means to gage the location of the cut portion of the strip lengthwise with respect to the edge of the article to register the cut portion with a sharply-curved portion of the article.

il. In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stock to an article, in combination, means for attaching the strip to an article, means for perfor-mirar?,l a preparatory operation on the strip before it is attached thereby, and a signal to facilitate the performance of the latter operation in a predetermined 'timed relation to the att-aching operation.

5. In an apparatus for' attaching a strip of stock to an article, in combination, means for attaching the strip to an article, means for performing a preparatory operation on the strip before it is attached thereby, and a signal for use in governing the performance of the preparatory operation, said signal being` movable into and out of co-operative relation with the article.

Y 6. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, means to attach a strip of stock to an article, strip treating means operablein timed relation thereto, and signal adapted to co-operate with the article for Vuse in controlling said timed relation.

T. `In combination, means to attach a strip of stock to an article, a treadle-controlled reciprocating knife to cut the strip prior to attachment, and a signal to indicate by its position relative to the article when the knife should be operated.

8. In combination, means te attach a strip of stock to an article, a knife movable to cut the strip prior to attachment, a signal to indicate by its position relative to the article when to operate the knife, and means to adjust the relative position of the knife and the signal. i

9. In combination, means to attach a strip of stock to anarticle, means to prepare the strip for bending before attachment, a signal to indicate by its position relative to the article when the preparing means should be actuated, an arm to move the signal into cooperative relation with the article, anda treadle to control the movement of the arm. n l0. In combination, means to attach a strip of stock to an article, means to prepare the strip for bending prior to attachment, asignal to indicate by its position relative to the article when the strip should be prepared for bending, an arm to move the signal into co-operative relation to the article, ano means to adjust the position of the signal on the arm.

Il. In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stock to an article, in combination, stripattaching means, strip-cutting means spaced therefrom, and a device with which a given portion of the article is adapted to co-operate to afford a signal, said device being spaced from said strip-attaching means at such a distance that actuation of the stripcutting means when a given portion of an article occupies a definite relation to said device will cause the cut portion of the strip to be attached to the given portion of the article.

l2. In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stock to an article, in combination, a visual signal, a signal-actuating arm, a strip-cutting knife, a knife-actuating arm, and a member for moving said arms, said member being so connected to the arms that it moves the signal to active position without cutting the stock, and thereafter actuates the knife without further moving the signal.

lf3. In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stock Ato an article, in combination, a visual signal, a strip-cutting knife, and a member to move the signal from kinactive to active position Vwhile moving the knife from inactive position to a preparatory position, and comprising a lost-motion connection to further move the knife to cut the strip without further moving the signal.

14. In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stock about the contour of a blank, in combination, means for pressing the stock against the blank, means for feeding the blank and stock relatively to said pressing means, a knife and a cutting block relatively movable to cut through the stock in the direction of said relative movement at points which are to be attached to a sharply curved portion of the blank, and manually-controlled means to vary the rate of feeding to permit slower feeding when the strip is being attached at said portions.

f l5. In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stock to a blank, in combination, stripattaching means, means to cut a portion cfa CII Cal

strip which is to be bent when attached to the'blank, and a signal to show vWhensaid cutting means should be actuated to bring the cut portion of the strip on the portion of the blank at which bending' of the strip is desired.

1G.In an apparatus for attaching a strip of stock to a blank, in combination, a support for a blank, a member to attach a strip to a blank supported thereby, means `to treat portions of the strip to prepare them for bending, and a signal to indicate by its relation to the blank the portions to be treated.

17. In an apparatus for attaching welts, in combination, means to attach a Welt, means to treat the Welt prior to attachment atpoints requiring bending, and a signal to indicate when such a point has reached said treating means.

18. In a Welt-'treating apparatus, in com bination, means to attach a Welt, means to treat the Welt prior to attachment at points requiring bending, and a signal to indicate When such a point has reached said treating means, said signal being adjustable to register the treated portion of the Welt With the desi ed point of attachment.

19. In an apparatus for attachingI Wel'ts, in combination With Welt attaching means, means to treat a Weltata point to be bent, a signal to indicate when such a point has been reached, and an arm carrying the signal, the signal being-adjustable longitudi-v nallyand laterallyof said arm. p

`2O. 'In an apparatus for attaching Welts, in combination with Welt-attaching means, a knife to' cuta Welt ata point to be bent, a signal to indicate 'when such a. point has been reached, and means to adjustthe relativel positions of Vthe knife and the signal to change the point Which is cut accordingl to the shape of thearticle to which the Welt is to be attached.

2l. In an apparatus for attaching weite,y in combination with Welt'attaching means, a knife to cut a Welt, a signal to indicate when the Welt should be cut thereby at a point requiring to be bent, and treadle-controlled means to actuate the knife.

22. In an apparatus for attaCliingWelts. in combination with welt attaching means, a welt-cutting device, a signal for determining When the device should be operated, and a lever to actuate iirst'the-signal and then the welt-cutting device.

23'. In an apparatus for attaching a Welt toa' shoe part, in conibination, Welt-attachf ing means, means for treating a Welt prior to' its attachmentto facilitate bending it, and' means for indicating when .such treatment should take place to bring the portion of the Welt so treated in the desired position on the shoe part.`

24. In aA Welt-attaching apparatus for use in making shoes, in combination, weltattaching means, manually controlled means for treating a Welt at `points requiringbending when attached, and a member to register with a portion of a shoe part toivhich a Weltis to be attached and so arranged that actuation of the Welt-treating means when said portion registers with the member Will result inattachment of the treated portion of the Welt to said portion of the shoe part.

25. In a Welt-treating apparatus, in combination, means to attacha Welt to 'a shoe part, a gage spaced therefrom to register' with a portion of a` shoe part about which a welt is to be bent, and a Welt-cutting device spaced approximately the same distance therefrom, measuring backward along` the Welt strip, by Which arrangen'ient actuation o f the cutting device Will bring the cut portion of the Welt on the registering portion of the shoe part.

`26. In a 'Welt-attaching apparatus for use in making shoes, in combination, Welt-attaching means means to prepare a portion of the Welt for bending, and means to gage the location of the vprepared portion ofthe Welt relativ-ely to the length of the sole edge to register said portion with the toe of a shoe.- r

27. In an apparatus for attaching a Welt to a shoe part, in combination. Welt-attaching means, and means for notching the inner edge of the Welt Where it is to be bent in passing about the toe yend of said shoe part.

28,. In a Welt-attaching apparatus, in com-A vbination,means to attache Welt to af shoe part, means to operate on thewelt before it is attached, and a signal to indicate the time for actuating said operating means.

29. In a Welt-laying machine, in combination, means to guide a yWelt strip, a member having a surface to press the Welt strip firmly against a soleh a rotatable Lmember having a sole-supporting surface movable from an angular position relatively7 to the elements of the welt-pressing surface into parallelism therewith as said member is rotated, av sup' port to maintain one of said members in a xed position, a lever to permit oscillation of the other member .in a direction to right angles to the elements ofthe Work-engaging surfaces, and a spring to press said members together.

30. Ina Welt-laying machine, in combina-y tion, a. Welt laying roll, a sole-supporting roll having its axisinclined ,relatively to the plan-e ofthe sole, having a supporting sur* face Whose elements are parallel When in supporting position to the. elements of ther surface of the Welt-laying roll, and a sup-A port for the rolls permitting'them to be separated while maintaining the parallelism cf the said elements.

3l.` Ina welt-laying machine, in combination, a member to press a Welt against a. channeled sole, a roller edge gage to. guide the sole, Yand a sole-supporting roll rotatable in a. plane inclined .to the plane of the sole andhaving a frusto-conical sole-supporting surface whose elements are parallel in supporting :position tothe plan-e of the soie, the inner side of the roll being cut away to provide clearance for the edg-egage, and the outer side formed and arranged to engage the channel lip.

32. Ina ivelt-iaying machine, in combination, a member' to press a Welt against a channeled sole, and a support for the sole, comprising a roll rotatable in a plane 1nclined'tothe plane of the sole and havinga frusto-conical sole-supporting surface made up of elements parallei in supporting position to the plane of the sole supported thereby, and having a second surfacey to engage the channel lip. fr

33. In a Welt-laying apparatus. in combination, co-operating rolls to Vpress Welt against arsole,` agage spaced therefrom and arrangedlto register with the toe of the sole during the laying of the first part the Welt, andV a Welt-cutting member spaced approximately the same distance from said rolls, measured back along` the Welt, to cut the part'g of the Welt which is to be laid about the toe of the sole.

34. In Welt-attaching apparatus, in combination,;an indicating signal, a manuallycontrolled lever to support and actuate said signal, and means to adjust in two directions the position of the signal on the lever.

35. In a Welt-attaching apparatus having means to .treat a ,.-elt, a gage to indicate when the treatment ofthe welt should be e'ected and comprising, in combination, a manuallycontrolled lever, a plunger having a portion longitudinally adjustablel in said leyer, and a signal adjustable on the plunger 1n a direction at right angles to the` fdirection of the plunger adjustment. Y

36. In a machine of the class `described, in

combination, means to att-ach a strip to an article, a knife to cut the strip, a signal, meansfor moving the signal into po tion for use in controlling the cutting of the strip, and mechanism whereby the'knife may be operated when a predetermined relation is established between the signal and the Work.

377. In amachine of the class described, in combination, means to attach a strip to an larticle, a knife to cut the strip, a signal,

means fori-positioning the signal for use in controlling the cutting of the strip, and means operative by further movement of they signal positioning meansfor actuating the knife.

38. A Welt-laying machine comprising. in

combination, Weltand-sole engaging presser and feed rolls, a; knife for preparing for bending a Welt fed thereby, and'means angularly to move the knife betiveen successive cuts to vary its angular relation to the Welt to enabie it to remove a section of Waste from the Welt by such cuts. i

39. A Welt-attaching machine com rising,

Yin combination, Welt-attaching means, a Yknife for preparing for bending a )velt attachedrV thereby, and means to adjust the knife between :its successive cuts to vary its angular reiation to the welt in the plane oi the machine of the class described comprising, in combination, means for attaching a strip of stock to an article, a knife to operatc on a portion of the strip before it is attached to article, to prepare the strip for bending, and means angularly to move the knifev betiveen two successive positions for making angularly related cuts on the strip :for different angular positions in the plane of the Welt. i Y ft2. A welt-laying machine comprising, in 'eombinatiom ivelt-and-sole pressing and feeding rolls, a roll to guide the welt thereto, cutting biock located between the guiding roll andthe pressing rolls, and a knife movable inte engagement with said block to cut the Welt to prepare it for bending in attaching it to the sole.

43. A Welt-laying machine comprising, in combination, ivelt-and-sole pressing and feeding means,a member to guide the Welt thereto, a cutting block, and an operator-controlled knife iocated betweenV the guiding member and the pressing means and movable into engagement vi'ith the cutting block' to prepare the Welt forbending in attaching to the sole.

ai. A Welt-laying machine comprising, in combination, pressing and f ing rolls, a cutter to operate on a strip of elting'before it reaches said rolls, a cutting.VV block, and a treadle and connections therefrom for moving the knife into engagement-With the cutting block. i

Y 45. In a Welt-attaching apparatus, combination, means for feeding a sole through the machine and attaching a welt strip to Lne sole as the sole is fed, means for operating uponf'an unattaehed portion of the Welt strip at point removed from 'the sole, and a gage to indica-te by its relation to the sole when said operating means should be actuated to insure that the portion of the Welt lll) isa

strip operated upon shall bear a predeter- .mined relation to the sole When attached thereto.

4G. In a Welt-attaching apparatus, in Combination, means for feeding a sole through the machine and attaching a Welt strip to the sole as the sole is fed, means for operating upon a portion of the Welt strip before it is attached to the sole, and a gage arranged so that a predetermind portion of the s'ole'will 10 register With the gage to indicate When said operating means should be actuated to insure that the portion of the Welt'strip operated upon shall hear a predetermined relation to the sole when attached thereto. 1

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciication.

MILTOhT H. BALLARD. 

